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Article: IRAQ: DAILY LIFE GROWS DEADLY AS U.S. WITHDRAWS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- September 8, 2009
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Analysis by Helena Cobban
Inter Press Service English News Wire
09-08-2009
WASHINGTON, Sep. 5, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - Political violence in Iraq
killed 456 Iraqis in August, the highest monthly death toll since
July 2008. And with the U.S. showing no sign it plans to reverse
the troop withdrawal that is now well underway, numerous struggles
for power are shaping up inside Iraq.
They involve both competing factions within the country and
also, perhaps more ominously, several neighbouring countries.
These levels of violence are deeply entwined, as was shown by
the aftershocks of the most deadly of August's acts of violence:
on Aug. 19, unknown parties, suspected to be disgruntled Sunnis,
detonated ...